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Seems like these stations are a novelty for just about everyone. Kind of like candle-lit dinners. You can turn the LED lights to low, but real candles are cool.
by yostrovs 8y ago
Seems like these stations are a novelty for just about everyone. Kind of like candle-lit dinners. You can turn the LED lights to low, but real candles are cool. Or LPs... pretty cool indeed. But those novelties don't rely on the government to make sure candles are made and LPs of popular albums are available.
- zamadatix 8y agoNovelties? Plenty of building time clocks use this as it penetrates walls better than GPS (not to mention it's cheaper to both operate and use)
- mark-r 8y agoReplacing the existing infrastructure which uses these signals will be much more expensive and time consuming than anybody realizes.
- yostrovs 8y agoYou can use the stars to set time too: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/ESA_sets_clock_by_distant_spinning_stars https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/ESA_sets_clock... To claim that the two radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii are our last grasp on time is a bit of a stretch. There are legacy systems in existence that rely on those stations, but none really seem particularly critical or that can't be easily moved over to something more modern than church bells.
- zamadatix 8y agoNot many stars in the middle of a building. Radio time isn't our last grasp on time but it is an efficient grasp that has been proven to work damn near everywhere for cheap. Old != obsolescent and you don't automatically save money by turning something currently in use off you have to look at the cost to remove or replace it in all use cases.
- AnthonBerg 8y agoIf you’d care to read the article it wouldn’t seem that way anymore.